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The Happy Rant

Episode #431 - Millennial Movies, Casual Profanity, and Self-Conscious Consumption

The Happy Rant

Happy Rant

Comedy, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8896 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Ted, Ronnie, and Barnabas wander to and fro through a variety of topics:

  1. Why Millennial movies kind of stink
  2. The rise of casual profanity
  3. Self-conscious story telling
  4. The millennial love of irony
  5. Consumption as a persona builder

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Life Audio Hey, welcome to the Happy Ramp Podcast. I am Ted Cluck.

0:18.0

Joined as always in studio.

0:21.0

By my good friends, my partners partners in radio Barnabas Piper and Ronald J Martin

0:27.0

Boys I like talking about movies I just had a movie experience that to me felt like the most millennial movie experience I've ever had.

0:39.0

And I'm noticing this now when I watch movies.

0:41.4

I feel like I can tell when they're made by millennials and

0:44.1

when they have the ethos of millennials and it just raised a lot of questions for me

0:50.5

Piper you're either like a young Gen X guy or an old millennial, so we're going to lean heavily on you for this one.

0:57.0

But we'll get into all that.

0:59.0

After we pay some bills.

1:07.0

All right boys we're back. So I watched the Netflix movie You People recently.

1:12.0

Have you guys seen you people?

1:14.0

And it doesn't matter if you haven't.

1:15.0

I think the conversation still works.

1:17.0

I saw these, almost half of it.

1:20.0

Yeah, okay, so you people is Jonah Hill, plays a Jewish guy, falls in love with a black girl,

1:28.0

hijinks in Sioux, their families are against it, they're trying to undermine the whole thing. Eddie Murphy's in it and it's

1:34.8

like he's reading off cue cards. It was just a total like mail-in for Eddie Murphy. I kept

1:39.0

waiting for him to dial it up and be... Mail, mail me that check Freddie Murphy.

1:44.0

Yeah, it was like late career at DeNiro where he's just popping up in a bunch of terrible things

1:48.7

and just collecting a payday.

1:50.5

But Ron, you've seen half of it did it scan as like ragingly millennial to you I mean yeah I mean 100 it was It was just, it was like the,

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